Welcome to issue 104 of Ruby Weekly! I've recommended Marc Andre Cournoyer's Rails classes in the past and now he's doing even more, so it's great to have him on board as a sponsor this week, check him out.

The chaps at Phusion have unveiled their latest release: Passenger Enterprise. Passenger is a popular Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby webapps and the 'Enterprise' variant includes rolling restarts, a live IRB console, and more.

Want to see how Rails, programming languages, Node.js or EventMachine work inside? Marc-Andre Cournoyer just announced new editions of his wildly popular online classes. Previous editions have sold out in a few hours. Book now if you're interested.

Learning Rails 3 by Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill, and Eric J Gruber takes an interesting 'outside in' approach to teaching Rails, well suited for front end developers looking to make the leap. There's a free sampler PDF you can check out.

Twitter's engineering team has released a library that uses Unicode's Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) to format certain types of text into their localized equivalents. Currently supported types of text include dates, times, currencies, decimals, percentages, and symbols.